The Ten Year Nap - Meg Wolitzer 08
“What happens when smart, educated women temporarily leave the work force for motherhood - and somehow don’t find their way back?” This book sounded like it was written just for me and I was so excited to read about it and I tried and tried and kept waiting for it to get started and tell me this great story…but it never happend. My husband heard the author on NPR and also thought it would be a great book. Just to make sure it wasn’t just me I even gave it to my neighbor who said the same thing, and she even finished it. The book is about 4 successful New York friends, who leave their careers temporarily to stay home and raise their babies and somehow 10 years later, and in their 40’s with older children who no longer need them around constantly, “they wonder how they got here - in lives so different from the ones they were brought up to expect - and why they have chosen to stay so long.” I know, it could have been the perfect book filled with all the answers some of us are looking for, but unfortunately it just didn’t do it for me.
Hi Betsy -
I felt exactly the same way about this book. I just waited for it to speak to me the way I wanted it to and it did not deliver.
Always good to realize we are still on the same page!!
I totally agree as well. I kept waiting for something to click…it didn’t. Just seemed like random musings to me.